What in life did it take you a surprisingly long time to realize you've been doing wrong all along?

[baldguy]

http://ask.metafilter.com/158740/You-were-doing-it-wrong

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Pretty much everything, it seems.

Definitely wallpapering.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. At 52 I think I'm still shaving wrong-- hoping to learn soon.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. The butt is for pooping food OUT, and the mouth is for taking it IN.

Life sure became better once I figured that out in the my late 20s.

[vanlassie]

4. Hahaa! I look at the site and low and behold...

Someone else had listed: "Peeling a banana. Opening from the stem is totally not the way to do it."

Well, I'm 58 and I only learned this same fact about three weeks ago!!!! I wasn't going to tell anyone!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SunnySong]

5. When playing Defender your supposed to rescue the little guys not shoot them too. nt

[guitar man]

6. BBQ

I bet I ruined 1000lb of meat trying to get it right .

But when I finally figured it out, I'm tellin ya, now my BBQ can't be beat ;)

[WinkyDink]

7. Pronouncing "gyro".

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Pronouncing "pwned"

Is that "gyro"-scope? Or "gyro" sandwich?

:hi:

[WinkyDink]

10. The sammich. I said "JY-ro" once, and was promptly guffawed at!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. I've been singing the wrong words to "Louie-Louie"

It's embarassing.

:blush:

[WinkyDink]

11. How do you know? ;-)

[Moondog]

12. How to prepare a whole mango into something you can actually eat.

Used to peel it, then slice it. All wrong, too much work. Halve it, seed it, score the insides and invert each half. A lot less work, a lot less waste, and a hell of a lot less time.

[Skittles]

13. really?

I love mangoes but generally eat them while dripping all over the sink....I will try your method! :D

[Moondog]

14. Drip no more Ms Skittles -

Check out this video I just found. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvLdPjpELyU&feature=related

This guy demonstrates a pretty cool trick with a spoon first, and then he demonstrates what I was talking about. I don't put quite so many scores in the grid because I like bigger chunks, but whatever makes your boat float. When looking for this, I just found that some people are calling what I do the Hedgehog Method. I can see that - it looks sort of like a hedgehog when inverted.

Enjoy!

[Skittles]

15. I WILL TRY THAT!!

I LOVE mangoes but they've always had the DREAD FACTOR with me! :o

[Curmudgeoness]

16. Saving all my money. After losing so much, I realize I could have had

one hell of a good time instead.

[MilesColtrane]

17. Falling in love with chick singers* over and over again.

The very definition of insanity.

*All I have met proudly refer to themselves this way.

[Heidi]

24. Oh, dear. There was a stretch in my life when I had a similar learning curve with musicians.

But I had so much fun that I can't honestly call it a problem. :hi:

[tblue]

18. Living.

I'm still doing it wrong but I don't know how else to do it.

[applegrove]

19. I was a ninny in high school and beyond. Took me until I was 25 to realize what a fool I was.

[raccoon]

20. I was a ninny for longer than you, if that's any consolation.

And I wish I'd known 40 years ago what I know now about office politics....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. Calling Midlodemocrat "Mildodemocrat"....

...sigh.....

[racaulk]

23. At least you got the first letter right.

You could have used a D instead.

:hide:

[Phentex]

22. I snap with the wrong fingers...

Most people use the thumb and middle finger but I use the ring finger and thumb. It's just the way I learned it. I can't get any sound out of the other fingers.